With every new device, new line to description is added, and support is done. Let say, 10 minutes job.

Unfortunately, for TI lunchpad is completed board with integrated debugger/programmer and on board target chip. They don't see it as universal/separate tool for all MSP430G2xx devices, and don't won't to update it (now). With new MSP430G2955 launchpad it will come updated debugger/programmer.

Don't know if it is possible to force it to see MSP430G2955 as generic MSP430G2xx device, and flash it.

FYI- @@JWoodrell sent me one of his adapter boards (rather clever way to do it!) that plug directly into the LaunchPad. I have been using a hacked version of the latest mspdebug code to support the F5172, and I decided to just pull the current GIT version of mspdebug and build that on my Mac (since Daniel Beer told me he put the F5172-supporting patch into the latest GIT anyhow; basically it's using the Olimex DB, which had F5172 ID codes included a while back)

This GIT version has the G2955's ID codes included.

With my v1.5 LaunchPad and JWoodrell's adapter board, mspdebug sees it right out of the box:

Yep, v1.5 LP has no "hardware" or "firmware" glitches preventing it from programming the G2955. I trust the other G2xx4 and G2xx5 chips are similar. MSPDebug just needs the new ID codes and details (or you need to build the current GIT version -- see http://mspdebug.sourceforge.net/download.html ) or else it flips out and ignores your chip.

edit: Looks like G2955 is the only one in there, the G2xx4's don't seem to be present. Might ask Daniel if he needs any help with that and get a breakout board set going since I have a G2744 TSSOP sample too...

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All the pins are broken out, 3.4/3.5 are on the left a few pins up, they are labled. You can just wire to those pads (pull the sw/hw jumpers on the launchpad and female pin them in, or jumper over to the main launchpad pins ( knowing you are connecting two pins together)

Thatd so cool that the launchpad is actually capable of programming it, now I have a reason to build out those adapter boards they do work